Forty Fish!!

We had 3 great days of fishing this week and on the last day caught over 40 fish in a matter of  hours.  We had an absolute blast!  There was no shortage of species and these photos are just a few.  Here is a long nosed trevally I caught which put up a decent fight.

This is actually Dad's reef shark that Tac is holding.

The prize catch is this Red Emperor that Tac caught and released.
Such a beautiful fish with magnificent markings.

A type of sweetlip which had really pretty blue markings around his eyes.

Another trevally......this time a small giant trevally.

Not quite sure what this fish is.  We have tried to find the species in two different fish guides but can't find it!

A very pretty parrot fish.

Dad caught a bit bigger giant trevally.  We thought he had a horse on when he was pulling it in!

Then along came the hump headed batfish.  We caught quite a bag full of  these with Dad reeling in the majority so we nicknamed it the "Geoffrey Fish".

Another "Geoffrey Fish"

A species of nannygai (which we think is the large mouth nannygai) was a brilliant pinky red.  A great end to a fantastic 3 weeks in Airlie Beach catching up with Mum and Dad.